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diff --git a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml index c80479cfb..0761629f7 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml +++ b/winsup/doc/overview2.sgml @@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ new UTF-16 style of symlinks is not compatible with older Cygwin release, which can't read the target filename correctly.</para> <para>Hard links are fully supported on NTFS and NFS file systems. On FAT -and some other file systems, the call falls back to simply copying the file, -a strategy that works in many cases.</para> +and other file systems which don't support hardlinks, the call returns with +an error, just like on other POSIX systems.</para> <para>On file systems which don't support unique persistent file IDs (FAT, older Samba shares) the inode number for a file is calculated by hashing its |